Long before the dawn of man, our planet was sojourned by many different species, all living within nature under a law delineated as The Circle of Life B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·“ life feeds on life.
The intricate mechanics of natureB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s ontogenesis is inconceivably marvelous; all species co-existing together within its ethereal system; life and death both contributing to its surreal architecture.
Ever since humanityB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s exordium into natureB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s prodigious framework, we have done nothing but attempt to mutilate it: clear-cutting inhabited forests, building cities, creating pollution and oceanic oil spills, etc. Now we have so selfishly come to a point where a deer walks through our backyard or gets hit by a car and we devise a plan to impede their reproduction and disrupt natureB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s evolutionary process.
The only reason deer are in our municipality is because we sabotaged their home to build ours. Deer do not understand the difference between a natural food source and a commercial crop; they are trying to survive within the dysfunctional environment that our genus has fabricated.
Through my window into the backyard I see birds singing and squirrels leaping from tree to tree; they are inferior to our race just as the deer are, should we get rid of them as well? Please let nature be nature; itB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s never done any wrong unto us other than let us exist with it.
Tyler Parker
Oak Bay